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Will AI hurt the young or the experienced workers? (article)

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:30:28 UTC

Background

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:32:08 UTC

Microsoft lays off 4 percent (9,000 people) of its workforce

Claim 1

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:33:12 UTC

AI will hurt the young workers the most

Claim 2

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:33:33 UTC

AI will hurt the older workers the most

Evidence

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:38:56 UTC

harper reed chief executive of 2389 research says uses AI to do any task in company, tasks done by any expensive employees (usually older/more tenured)

data

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:40:09 UTC

"How you decrease cost is not. by firing the cheapest emplyees you have...you take the cheapest employee and make them worth the expensive employee,"

Subclaim

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:42:30 UTC

companies want to increase profit margins by laying off the expensive people

Data

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:45:41 UTC

ADP study dound that emplyment for workers with less than two year of tenure peaked in 2023, down 20-25% since then.

Evidence

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:47:24 UTC

Fields that have been using AI paints a dire picture for entry level workers

Subclaim

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:49:55 UTC

A.I. is going to affect novice workers with tasks that are simplest, therefore easiest to automate.

Evidence

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:52:26 UTC

Chief executive of Anthropic said that tech cannibalize half of all entry-level white collar roles within 5 years

Evidence

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 18:53:18 UTC

Transforms the jobs of midlevel workers in favorable ways than entry level

Evidence

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:56:01 UTC

A.I. would prompt companies to hire fewer entry level wokrers because they wouldnt be needed to complette entry-level tasks, but more midlevel coders because A.I. amplified their value to the whole team.

Subclaim

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 18:57:40 UTC

Employment has increased for workers with 2+ years fo job tenure

Data

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 19:00:26 UTC

"that state of the world not good for experienced workers...you're being paid for the rarity of your skill, and what happens its that AI allows the skills to live outside of people

Evidence

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 19:02:58 UTC

Danielle Li, economist MIT said that you may no longer have to be an engineer to code, or a lowyer to write a legal brief

Subclaim

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 19:04:37 UTC

A.I. could undermine the higher skill workers more than the lower skilled workers

Data

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 19:09:20 UTC

Earlier before recent layoffs, Microsoft laid off 6,000 employees, many of them software engineers, while July included middle managers

Evidence

ns1775 — 2025-09-24 19:11:33 UTC

companies adopting AI(google, meta, Amazon) have been laying off expensive workers

Counterclaim

mc3177 — 2025-09-24 19:18:52 UTC

Younger workers more likely to benefit to AI, older workers more vulnerable because they are more orientated toward a routine in a certain way of doing thing